puritanical

Example Sentences

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The setting is still a Swiss alpine hamlet, but the villagers are all members of some puritanical sect and its sleepwalking heroine, Amina, has longings that transcend its limits.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 8, 2025

The Jesus Army church recruited thousands of people to live in close-knit, puritanical communities in Northamptonshire, London and the Midlands.

From BBC • Jul. 28, 2025

Missouri’s also a state whose highway billboard signs tell a much stranger story than the puritanical hubris of its legislators suggest.

From Salon • Dec. 28, 2023

It’s no surprise that someone in Elster’s shoes would push a case like this one, given the court’s skepticism of some of the Lanham Act’s more puritanical provisions.

From Slate • Nov. 1, 2023

Other hobgoblins were the brainchildren of self-proclaimed experts who cooked up idiosyncratic theories of how language ought to behave, usually with a puritanical undercurrent in which people’s natural inclinations must be a form of dissoluteness.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker